These advisory opinions have been issued by the Advisory Committee on Standards of Judicial Conduct.
Rule 503(D), SCACR, provides the following regarding these opinions: "All opinions shall be advisory in
nature only. No opinion shall bind the Commission on Judicial Conduct in any proceeding properly before
that body. However, in the discretion of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, an opinion of the Committee
may be considered as evidence of a good faith effort to comply with the Code of Judicial Conduct."